Recently, Santos Ltd., Adelaide, made some significant announcement regarding oil from its two-well infill project in Van Gogh Field in the Exmouth basin offshore Western Australia which has been brought on stream. On September 2018, the infill project started which comprises of drilling and completion of two subsea wells and connecting them to the existing field infrastructure.
In the basin, Van Gogh field is one of three subsea oil field developments which are tied in to the Ningaloo Vision floating production, storage, and offloading vessel. In order to access bypass oil which is not drained by the original field, two dual-lateral wells have been designed. The technically challenging operation involved drilling horizontal sections in the reservoirs up to 3,500 m in length and only 950 m subsea. There will be boost to oil production from the field by the successful project .will provide a boost to oil production from the field.
In the year 2003, Van Gogh was discovered whereas production started in 2010. In 2000, nearby Coniston field was discovered whereas in 1989 Novara field. They were respectively tied back to the FPSO in 2015 and 2016.
Santos is having 52.5% interest and operatorship of the Van Gogh-Coniston-Novara development. It was acquired last year when purchased Quadrant Energy Ltd. of Perth, whereas IPEX of Japan has the rest of 47.5%.
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